Self awareness gives us ultimate human freedom.

An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment. This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating; and everything…

— Bankei Yotaku

We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot…

— Chogyam Trungpa

Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a…

— Fred Rogers

“In the worldly life, due to maadakta (intoxication of the ego of ‘I am Chandubhai’), one has completely lost awareness of everything about one’s…

— Dada Bhagwan

A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this…

— Brian Swimme

I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious…

— Ansel Adams

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom…

— Jonathan Tropper

“It is not so much about fighting against the ego; it is more about harmonizing with it.”

— Grace Sara

I'm part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over the world.

— Linda Evangelista

“Don’t turn your face away. Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know. Open your eyes to the truth. It’s…

— Vashti Quiroz-Vega

“No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the…

— Kamand Kojouri

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with…

— Charles Fort

The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself,…

— Colleen McCullough

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are…

— Anonymous

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we…

— Rollo May